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Maybe its because it is a mix of students and global sports executives from all areas of business, maybe its because the setting is a college campus, maybe its because the combination of those two give the speakers a chance to be a little more loose and free thinking with ideas, but for the seventh …
Some best practices and ideas for a weekend… Take A Base, Get A Taco: Taco Bell has been known to tie their partnerships with professional sports to some outlandish giveaways over the years, some of which they have had demand exceed supply. So this time out for the World Series they placed a bet on …
MLB’s Stand Up To Cancer Beyond Compare: Throughout the baseball postseason, the colorful and silent Stand Up To Cancer logo has appeared without great fanfare. It does not scream at the consumer, but in every ballpark during the playoffs there was the logo. For some, myself included, the logo was a surprise and may not …
As we hit the final steps before the World Series, move deeper into the NFL and college football and welcome college hoops and other winter sports, some interesting best practices for the week… Hashtags Abound: Last year the University of Mississippi cracked the hashtag on the field boundry by dropping one in the end zone …
An undefeated NFL season. A perfect college football season. A tennis Grand Slam. Tiger. Michael. The Miracle On Ice. Even horse racing’s Triple Crown. All have been accomplished and celebrated time and again in American sport SINCE Carl Yastrzemski ‘s1967 season for the Boston Red Sox, the last time, until Wednesday night, that any player …
The final days of another playoff-less season for the New York Mets have gone pretty quietly. Except for the anticipation of R.A. Dickey winning 20 games and perhaps David Wright becoming the all-time team hits leader, the air left the CitiField balloon for the most part around the All-Star Game. Try as they will to …
As we head into the homestretch for baseball, and the kickoff of college football, another three good ideas that popped up as the week came to an end… Certain-Lee The Best Promo of the MLB Season: The San Francisco Giants keep finding ways to do it right and first with fan engagement, and now they …
It was nice seeing the second version of “The Redeem Team” take the Olympic gold on Sunday over Spain, but what did it do for the future of the great game of basketball? By contrast, the men’s Olympic soccer tourney, won by Mexico over Brazil, gave the sport a big lift and highlight a host …
It is a week before the London Olympics begin, and for the next 10 days soccer, more than any other sport, will be front and center in the United States. It is not World Cup, which will still have to share time with other American sports in 2014, it is a series of friendlies and …
It was never an “if” but a “when,” so those who expressed surprise that the NBA officially announced an approved outreach plan for a front jersey patch sponsor should not be surprised at all. MLS has done well without issue, the WNBA has worked smoothly, small patches on NHL, NFL and NBA practice jerseys didn’t …